UNRAVELING MICROBE REPRODUCTION 10/11/07: Graduate student Ganhui Lan and Professor Sean Sun's paper "Z-ring force and cell shape during division in rod-like bacteria" just appeared in the Proceeding of National Academy of Sciences. More information can be found here.
FACULTY APPOINTMENT 10/9/07: Prof. Allison Okamura has been appointed the Gilbert Decker Faculty Scholar. This three-year scholarship was established by alumnus Gil Decker, Class of 1958, to support scholarly and teaching activities.
OPEN HOUSE Join us on Saturday, October 20 for our annual undergraduate open house at 9:00 a.m. on the Homewood campus. Mechanical Engineering information sessions begin at 10:00 a.m. in Latrobe Hall, room 120.
BMES STUDENT AWARD 10/1/07: Professor Sean Sun's graduate student, Ganhui Lan, was awarded a BMES (Biomedical Engineering Society) student travel award for 2007 to support his participation at the 2007 BMES Annual Fall Meeting in Los Angeles, CA.
FACULTY HONOR 9/6/07: Professor Andrea Prosperetti has been honored as a Fellow of the School of Engineering at the University of Tokyo for his distinguished service in research and education.
The second Engineering building constructed on the Johns Hopkins campus, Latrobe Hall, opened in 1916. The building, longtime home to the Department of Mechanical Engineering, was named in honor of Benjamin Henry Latrobe Jr., the prominent Maryland civil engineer.